NVIDIA Relaunches SHIELD Tablet
NVIDIA launched the original SHIELD Tablet as its foray into the mobile gaming market, but it was hit with a recall in July
due to overheating batteries causing a fire hazard. The device was
removed from the company store at the time and has now been relaunched
under the SHIELD Tablet K1 branding. The K1 remains similar to the
design of the original tablet with the exception of a new battery,
silicon grips, and a removed LTE option. The K1 retains a Tegra K1 chip,
1920x1200 resolution, ten hours of battery life, and dual 5-megapixel
cameras. NVIDIA also cut the price by $100 from the original tablet,
giving the K1 an MSRP of $199 for the 16GB model.
Source: PC World

The Crew Wild Run Expansion Launches Today
The action-driving MMO The Crew has received its Wild Run
expansion today. The expansion adds four new vehicle types to the game
and The Summit challenge. The Summit will have players testing their
various skills on different terrains at different iconic USA locations.
Each summit will last an average of three days and there will be two
Summit Qualifiers ever week, with the best participants getting to
compete in the Monthly Summit Finale. The four new vehicle types added
by Wild Run are dragsters, drift cars, monster trucks, and motorcycles. Wild Run
can be downloaded today for the Xbox One, Playstation 4, and Windows
PCs and will be available in stores on Thursday. The expansion is listed
at $24.99 in the UPlay store.
Those with just the base game will
still be getting a free update with improved graphics, new lighting
effects, a new weather system, and redesigned areas for the new
vehicles. Wild Run content will regularly receive new vehicles, specs, rewards, features, and more after its launch today.

Hardware Roundup: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, Edition
Another
day has arrived and with it comes several items for your viewing
pleasure. There is a review of the Thermaltake Poseidon Z RGB mechanical
gaming keyboard, which features Kailh switches and a multitude of
lighting options. We have a look at the Alienware Steam Machine, a slim
yet powerful computer running SteamOS to bring PC gaming into the living
room by a different means. The THL 2015A smartphone gets tested to see
what this revised edition of the previous model has to offer. Wrapping
things up for today is a look at Intel Speed Shift and how it helps
speed up interacting with your computer via a mouse or touchscreen.Keyboards/Mice

Catalyst 15.11.1 Beta Driver Made Available by AMD
AMD has officially launched the Catalyst 15.11.1 beta driver, which is the last release of the Catalyst Software Center, as Radeon Software Crimson edition
is right around the corner. The latest Catalyst driver contains version
15.201.1151.1010 of the AMD Catalyst Display Driver and primarily
offers quality and performance optimizations for some of the most recent
gaming titles. These gaming titles include Star Wars Battlefront, Fallout 4, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, and Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
AMD
Catalyst 15.11.1 beta is supported on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of
Windows 7 SP1 and higher, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10, and can be
downloaded immediately from the source link below.
Source: AMD

Laser Used to Cool Water for First Time
Lasers
are a really cool technology that enables all kinds of other
technologies and experiments. One thing fairly consistent with lasers is
that they heat the targeted object up as the beam continues to strike
it. Researchers at the University of Washington have changed that
though, by actually cooling water by 36 ºF with an infrared laser.
This
refrigeration effect was first demonstrated at Los Alamos National
Laboratory in 1995, but in that case vacuum conditions were required.
What the Washington researchers have achieved is under real-world
conditions though, so it has many possible applications. It works by
aiming the laser at a microscopic crystal that has been suspended in the
water, or other liquid. When the crystal is hit by the light, it emits a
glow, but this glow puts out more energy than the laser is providing.
The extra energy therefore comes from the crystal's environment; the
liquid it is suspended in.
This discovery has many applications,
including in biology as it could allow lasers to precisely cool various
cells when undergoing different processes. It could even be deployed to
cool objects like computer chips. Currently though, the process takes a
lot of energy, so the researchers are going to continue to work on ways
to improve its efficiency.
Source: University of Washington